«How to have healthy children». Responses to the falling birth rate in Norway, c. 1900-1940
Autor: | Ida Blom |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Infant health media_common.quotation_subject Interwar period Mothers Legislation Fertility Salud maternoinfantil Ambulatory Care Facilities Birth rate History and Philosophy of Science Pregnancy Infant Mortality Medicine Humans Salut maternoinfantil Socioeconomics Birth Rate media_common Consultoris de lactants Infant Welfare business.industry Norway Health Policy Sterilization Reproductive Infant Sterilization History 19th Century General Medicine Health Services History 20th Century Health stations Noruega Infant mortality Breast Feeding Esterilización Sterilization (medicine) Consultorios de lactantes Esterilització Mother health Female business Breast feeding |
Zdroj: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya instname Dynamis, Volume: 28, Pages: 151-174, Published: 2008 Dynamis v.28 2008 SciELO España. Revistas Científicas Españolas de Ciencias de la Salud Recercat: Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam; Vol. 28 (2008): Improving public health amidst crises: the in-terwar years in Europe; p. 151-174 Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
Popis: | This paper focuses on initiatives to improve infant health, as they developed in Norway especially during the interwar period. Falling birth rates were felt as a menace to the survival of the nation and specific initiatives were taken to oppose it. But crises engendered by the reduction in fertility strengthened opportunities for introducing policies to help the fewer children born survive and grow up to become healthy citizens. Legislation supporting mothers started in 1892 increased in the interwar years including economic features. Healthy mother and baby stations and hygienic clinics, aimed at controlling births were developed by voluntary organisations inspired from France and England respectively. A sterilization law (1934) paralleled some German policies. |
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